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In article <D1yBFq.L2q@tsegw.tse.com>, dmarks@tsegw.tse.com (Don Marks) wrote:

> a02632@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
> 
> >I was watching a tape I made from Bravo, the new Canadian TV network
> >which debuted a couple of days ago. The show in question was KYTV,
> 
> All of the promos I have seen indicate that KYTV is on the new Showcase
> network, not Bravo.
> 
> >But catch this, yet another warning! Obviously these people have been
> >given the word from the CRTC, Canada's ass-kissing broadcast regulatory
> >authority to toe the politically correct line!!
> 
> >"Morals and attitudes in other countries are not always the same as
> >they are here in Canada. Please bear this in mind as you watch the
> >following program."
> 
> 
> And how is putting up a warning "toeing the politically correct line"?
> Toeing the politically correct line these days seems to be shouting down
> anything which might have been considered politically correct 5 years
> ago.
 

Actually, that warning isn't as much about PC as it is about dumbing down,
assuming people don't KNOW that moral and attitudes in other countries are
different, etc. PC itself is a form of dumbing down, making the assumption
we can't figure things out for ourselves. That just sounds like
middle-class, pasteurized stupidity.

Marlene

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Marlene Blanshay                                         matt@CAM.ORG
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Montreal                       Quebec                          Canada
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